For anyone who's digging the new Nokia Ovi Suite all-in-one system and who wants to both to live on the bleeding edge and have a say in how Ovi Suite develops, note that v2.1 has been opened up to public beta testing. There are some links and change notes below to help you make up your mind...(!)
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From what I have seen in the Beta on my Windows machine, Ovi Suite has come a long long way from the days of being very resourceful, and lacking syncing with Ovi.com. Great news that Beta Labs are open to feedback, this is how things should of been right from the start, but better late than never.
Looking forward to Mac support for sure though, as my Mac is my main workhorse now.
Is it still the big resource hog as was the version 2.0?
I was playing with 2.0 for a month and then got back to PC Suite. It has everything as 2.1 has and the interface is light and easy on the memory and performance.
I finally got ovi to work on Windows 7 under virtualbox.
Ovi 2.x has always worked for me in Windows 7
Ovi Suite 2.x has always worked for me in Windows 7 as well, albeit at an excruciatingly slow pace.
I have been using the 2.1 beta full-time for a few days, even entrusted it with backing up my 5800 before a hard reset and memory card format, and I am pleased that it has managed to restore the backup successfully post-backup.
It's not as quick as the PC Suite is yet, and I suspect that this is due to the use of .NET but it't not the rubbish tool it was when I first try it. Good work, Nokia.
Please, Nokia - take this away from the bungling amateurs at Beta Labs and hire some competent professional programmers.
Or create a competition and award it to the best. Anything will be better than Ovi Suite. Slow, unreliable, bloated - because of this, when people think of "Ovi" they will think of garbage.
Bad software is now hurting the whole company. Get rid.
Normally as software evolves it builds on the good points of its ancestors.
OviSuite does NOTHING that pcsuite cannot do (except one point), and yet is slower, clunkier, and less configurable than pcsuite.
It also is less robust - as is seen by the many problems getting it to work/sync etc.
It doesn't support Office 2010, because of some "difference in the way Office 2010 stores folders". Curiously though, pcsuite (last version being July 2008) does !!!!!!!
Come on Nokia, you build great phones, but have always lagged behind on the pc integration/syncing side - and ovisuite does nothing to redress that.
Get some focus, and employ someone who actually knows what they are about.
PS : the one good feature is the syncing of groups/categories between Outlook and the phone - if you are using older versions of Office only though.
Sorry Nokia, as long OVI means SO SO SOOOO SLOOOOW - I will stick to nokia suite. How can I use sth that sync with my nokia e71 about minute when need to send 3 news calendar records and two sms?
At firs I was sure that I get sth wrong. Options. Other apps. Dont know. But after minutes just turned OVI off and back to suite. Old. Fast. And so sure at work.
Sorry. Buttons and white background is nice only at adv fliers. 😉
So - OVI for me is OVER.
Sorry bye